Description
Book SynopsisComprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs.
Trade Review"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *
"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *
"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *
"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *
Table of ContentsThrough ethnographic eyes
The emergence of drug ethnography
Systematic modernist ethnography and ethnopharmacology
Drug ethnography since the emergence of AIDS
Drugs and globalization: from the ground up and the sky down
The conduct of drug ethnography: risks, rewards, and ethical quandaries in drug research careers
Career paths in drug-related ethnography: from falling to calling
Gender and drug use: drug ethnography by women about women
The future of drug ethnography as reflected in recent developments
